How to beat the Tigers
Yes, we can beat the Tigers, and no, we ain't
headed that-away. The way to beat the Tigers has been pointed out by
one man who has studied every single suicide terrorist attack,
suicide bomber and suicide terrorist organisation on the planet from
1980 to 2003, paying considerable attention to the LTTE.
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The death of Vasantha Karalliedde: A slice of childhood lost
Nostalgia for one's childhood is a particularly
powerful emotion for it embodies a search for lost innocence. Those
were the days before the fall, before one's eyes were violently
prised open to the sordid realities of life. Such a sense of
bitter-sweet nostalgia seized me when I heard the news of the sudden
death of Vasantha Karalliedde our childhood neighbour, I discovered
after his death that he was only nine years my senior but when one
has known somebody from the time one has been a toddler that gap can
be intimidating even in one's adulthood.
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The Rajpal Abeynayake Column: Ranil's bugle call to the nation
is with a siren
In Greek mythology, Scylla and Charybdis were
two temptresses that lured seafarers to their deaths by their
singing. Hence, the derivation of the word siren. When he holds onto
a siren, Ranil Wickremesinghe thinks he is a tempter, or better
still a temptress in the manner of the original two sirens. When he
bends his body like Beckham, and holds onto that siren, he can
hardly conceal the hope that these sirens will toot until they
burst, heralding LTTE orgies of bloodletting on Sinhala civilians.
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